Links du Jour 17 March 2012

Michael Tobis, editor-in-chief of Planet3.0 and site cofounder, has always been interested in the interface between science and public policy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences where he developed a 3-D ocean model on a custom computing platform. He has been involved in sustainability conversations on the internet since 1992, has been a web software developer since 2000, and has been posting sustainability articles on the web since 2007.

Mountain pine beetles are benefiting from climate change. Mountain pines, consequently, are not. A new study suggests that some beetles living in Colorado, which normally reproduce just once annually, now churn out an extra generation of new bugs each year.

Big Australian climate change report out; tries to put two wet years and the preceding Big Dry into the same context. But do we even know what is happening? Isn’t it just the case that regional changes will be large and non-monotonic as we keep rattling the system?

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